Boom! x2
Vegeta and Cui's spaceships landed on Planet Namek one after the other.
Vegeta had come to teach Dodoria a lesson. His power level was now 24,000, while that fatso Dodoria only had 20,000.
Poor Dodoria had no idea that a Saiyan Monkey had set his sights on him. He was still leading the charge at the very front of the battlefield, killing Namekian after Namekian among the grunts.
He had only one wish: for Frieza to come back soon!
He missed the days when he could throw his weight around under Frieza's protection. He'd even settle for being a dog relying on its master's power!
At least he wasn't an actual dog!
A fierce battle broke out in the distance, in the direction where Vegeta and Cui had landed. Dodoria, who was stationed at the front lines, happened to see it.
After two brats had just rescued a Namekian kid, he'd been searching for them ever since.
Without hesitation, he activated his Scouter and saw that one of them was Cui, with a power level of 18,000!
The other felt somewhat familiar. It had to be Vegeta, also with a power level of 18,000! (While suppressing his power.)
"Oh-ho! Those two are here too! I'll give them a proper lesson in how to behave. At last, I can vent all this pent-up frustration!"
He only dared laugh once. If he laughed several times in a row, that would be King Frieza's signature laugh!
His red body suddenly erupted in a white aura, and he flew toward the battle at incredible speed.
As soon as he arrived, Dodoria saw Vegeta kill Cui with a blast from afar. The Scouter before his eyes also displayed a power level of 24,000!
Dodoria slammed on the brakes, then ran without looking back!
As if! He'd come to show off, not to get beaten up.
"Dodoria, don't run! You're the one I'm taking down today!"
Vegeta unleashed his full power, rapidly closing the distance between himself and Dodoria!
Bam!
A green-haired man with his hair tied into a single braid suddenly appeared. He drove an elbow into Vegeta, knocking him deep underground.
At the time, Zarbon hadn't transformed yet, and his power level was only 21,000. He'd managed to hit Vegeta only thanks to a sneak attack.
"Zarbon, you're weak. That didn't hurt at all!"
Vegeta burst out of the ground. Apart from some dust on his body, there wasn't a single sign that he was injured!
Zarbon was frustrated too. He'd once been one of King Frieza's trusted men, yet now he could only serve as the leader of a small vanguard unit!
Now even Vegeta, someone he'd once looked down on, was mocking him. How could he possibly accept that?
"Ah!!! Vegeta, you're asking for it!"
With a roar, Zarbon transformed!
He'd been holding it in for far too long. He needed to let it out!
Zarbon, who'd looked fairly normal if not exactly handsome before, turned into a toad-faced monster after transforming. His muscles bulged all over.
He looked hideous and terrifying!
His power level instantly soared to 29,000, putting him 5,000 above Vegeta!
Ah! Hya-hya-hya!
His flurry of attacks was fierce as a tiger, but even with Vegeta fighting with everything he had, he still couldn't beat the vastly stronger Zarbon. Zarbon struck him again and again with his fists.
Blergh!
Vegeta suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood. The white aura around him vanished, and he passed out cold!
Poor Vegeta had become a walking tragedy, beaten to within an inch of his life by Zarbon.
Krillin and Gohan, hiding behind a boulder, saw the whole thing and were both stunned!
They'd arrived on Planet Namek before Vegeta, but as soon as they landed, they sensed many evil presences and didn't dare make a move.
The only time they'd intervened was when they couldn't stand by any longer. Even then, they'd only rushed out to save a child.
Now they'd seen powerful Vegeta beaten to a pulp, and they were even less willing to show themselves.
All they could do was hope Son Goku would hurry to Planet Namek and save them!
"Goku! Hurry up and get here! Planet Namek is so dangerous! Your best friend's knees are buckling!"
"Dad! Where are you? I'm scared!"
Bulma watched the laser beams streaking across the sky from time to time and felt like she was about to lose it!
And what was Son Goku doing right now?
Oh, he was wriggling around on the spaceship like a maggot, trying to reach a little bag nearby that held several Senzu Beans.
......
On Ice Planet, it was nothing but cold. The boundless ice fields made one's scalp tingle.
Bam!
Suddenly, Ice Planet shook. A huge hole opened in a sheet of ice somewhere, and an endless icy wind howled out from within.
He was about as tall as Son Goku and almost entirely pale white, with purple patches only on his head, shoulders, and a few other spots.
His pupils were blood-red, yet small, which made him all the more unnerving.
"Oh-ho-ho-ho!"
"Scouter Technique, activate!"
"My power level's up to 250 million. Not bad, not bad!"
"So this is what it feels like to get stronger. It's great!"
"Still, I want that other kind of satisfaction!"
Frieza touched the smooth spot, without a single bump or crease, and two red beams suddenly shot from his eyes.
Whoosh!
Ice Planet was almost sliced in two by Frieza.
After barely managing to vent some of his anger, Frieza took a communicator out of his storage space and put it on his ear. Its glass lens covered his left eye.
"Damn, these ears are bizarre. They're rectangular! What the hell is that supposed to be?"
Beep! Beep-beep!
"Dodoria, where the hell have you been?"
Dodoria was flying with Zarbon toward King Cold's spaceship when he suddenly stopped short.
That long-missed voice filled him with such excitement that he wanted to burst into tears.
Zarbon had no idea what had gotten into Dodoria. He could only stop and ask irritably,
"Hey, are you having a fit? We need to hurry and take Vegeta back to King Cold!"
Dodoria ignored Zarbon. Instead, he bowed ninety degrees to the empty air, perfectly straight.
"King Frieza, I'm on Planet Namek right now because King Cold wants to gather the Dragon Balls, which can grant any wish!"
"King Frieza, I've had such a hard life! I used to be your personal secretary and right-hand man, but now I've been demoted to a mere squad leader! Waaah!"
Hearing Dodoria's tearful sobbing made Frieza's every hair stand on end.
Or rather, that was how it felt.
His body was completely smooth, after all. He didn't have a single hair on him.
But when he heard that King Cold was doing exactly what he'd done in the original story, Frieza felt sick.
He owed the Namekian Grand Elder a favor back then. And now, before long had passed, his own father had attacked the planet.
He didn't care whether the Namekians died or not.
He just thought King Cold was overstepping. Wouldn't it be better to stay on Ice Planet and enjoy fine wine and delicacies?
Why go barge into the main storyline just to steal the spotlight? Who did he think he was?
Now that Frieza's power level had doubled, all he needed was two seconds, and he could kill King Cold instantly.
Future Trunks, who'd come from the future, was about as strong as Frieza was now. If he had to put a number on it, Future Trunks's power level should be around 240 million.
If Future Trunks could kill King Cold, there was no reason Frieza couldn't!
"Oh-ho-ho-ho! Now that I, King Frieza, have returned to the scene, my first opponent is my own father, at least in name?"
"Righteous patricide—bah, I mean, kill my father as a sacrifice to the heavens, and my power will know no bounds!"
"No, that's not right. They use ki here, so it should be: my ki will know no bounds!"
"Ah, what a shame I can't use this ki for that kind of thing. If I could, it'd be perfect!"
"Damn you, Akira Toriyama! You're the worst!"
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